Monks, Monkeys and Nats of Taung Kalat monastery
Mount Popa with its Taung Kalat monastery is truly a place of wonder. Standing on a volcanic plug, the monastery hosts aggressive monkeys, spirits called Nats, numerous shrines and occasional Yetis.…
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Menengai crater - the dwelling of a demonic flying umbrella
Menengai crater in Kenya has lots of really strange stories connected to it - from time-bending phenomenon to priest suicides, demon farmers and evil umbrellas. Besides that, the view in the area is…
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The square trees of El Valle de Anton
El Valle de Anton, Panama, has a unique set of square trees growing on the volcanic soil of the second largest inhabited dormant volcano in the world. There is no direct explanation why exactly the…
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Sandboarding down the Cerro Negro volcano
Cerro Negro is a young Nicaraguan volcano, which is still seismically active. Besides enjoying the magical landscapes from its top, you can now sandboard down its steaming black ash slopes at a…
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Montserrat, the ash-covered island
Since 1995, Montserrat keeps being continuously covered in ash due to series of intermittent eruptions of Soufriere Hills volcano for the last 15 years. If you are into abandoned ghost towns and…
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The diabolical depression of Danakil
Danakil is a depression in the north of Ethiopia with eternal lakes of fire, toxic gases, sulfurous waters and merciless heat. Legend has it, that the place was a battlefield of the demons,…
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The eternal fire of Yanar Dag
Yanar Dag's fire has been burning for thousands of years and can never be extinguished. The burning mountain is located on Absheron Peninsula, Azerbaijan, and causes everything around it burst into…
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The drive-in Soufriere volcano and its sulphurous springs
The sulphur springs in St.Lucia are located in the crater of the only drive-in volcano in the world. Soufriere volcano is dormant and safe to visit and to take a bath in the sulphurous mud, while…
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In: natural wonders, volcanoes
Huellas de Acahualinca - the museum of ancient footprints
Huellas de Acahualinca in Nicaragua is a museum of 6000 year old footprints imprinted in volcanic ash and mud by humans and animals - the oldest footprints ever found in Americas.
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